Township Office Candidates: Bucks County

Neighbors takes a look at the openings for township offices and the candidates seeking them in the Nov. 5 general election.

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BUCKS COUNTY

BEDMINSTER

Republican incumbent Barbara Thomas, 55, of Route 2 Box 281, is seeking another six-year term on the board of supervisors. She runs the laundry at Roslyn Uniform Rental Co., Perkasie.

Auditor Pauline Burdick, 67, of Route 2 Box 211, Sylvan Road, is also running uncontested. A Republican, she is retired from the accounting office of Apparel Affiliates, Quakertown.

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BRIDGETON

Republican incumbent Wayne A. Brown is the sole candidate for the six-year post of supervisor in Bridgeton Township.

Brown, 39, of 175-B Birch Road, is a supervisor for American Olean Tile Co., Quakertown. The two township auditor posts are also uncontested. Republican incumbent A. Charles DuBree, 57, of Lodi Hill Road, is seeking the four-year auditor's spot. He is a plant manager at Quaker Color, a division of McAdoo & Allen Inc., in Quakertown. Running for the six-year term for auditor is incumbent Susan E. Brown, 37, of River Road. She is the controller for Malmark Inc., Plumsteadville.

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DURHAM

In Durham Township, three Republicans are all running uncontested for the position of supervisor. Richard M. Johnson is seeking to finish the two-year term originally held by David M. Rau, while Bartley E. Millett and incumbent Manfred Marschewski are seeking four- and six-year terms, respectively.

Johnson, 48, of Red Bridge Road, is a newcomer. He is the owner of Johnson Brothers Machine Co., Durham. Johnson would replace Herman Gerenser, who previously held Rau's seat.

Marschewski, 57, also of Route 1, is the current supervisor chairman. He works as a farmer and maintenance machinist, Anheuser-Busch Corp., in Newark, N.J.

Running for the six-year term for auditor is Arlene A. Robbins, 51, of 22 Hilltop Rd. A Republican, Robbins is an elementary school teacher at Palisades Middle School.

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EAST ROCKHILL

David R. Nyman, 45, of 512 Schwenkmill Road, is running without opposition for his first six-year term as supervisor. Nyman, a Republican, teaches fifth grade at Seylar School in the Pennridge School District.

Republican Donald R. Mirras, 38, of 8098 Covered Bridge Road, is seeking a six-year term as auditor. He is the owner of Harleysville Financial Services.

A Republican, Ostroff, 50, of 1096 Apple Road, is also the chairman of Bucks County Airport Authority and president and chief executive officer of Comark Communications Inc., Colmar.

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HILLTOWN

Republican Jack C. Fox, 64, of 1935 Limekiln Pike is seeking his first seat on the board of supervisors. Fox, a member of the township's Planning Commission for 16 years and chairman of the municipality's recycling committee, retired about five years ago as a salesman for Ayerst Laboratories, Radnor.

Patricia E. Garland of 8 Orchard Road, a Republican, is running for her second term as auditor. Garland, 40, is a substitute teacher.

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MILFORD

Former Milford supervisor John A. Moyer is unopposed for the six-year supervisor's seat now held by Richard Budweg, who is leaving the board to attend graduate business school.

Moyer, 56, of 2355 Hillcrest Rd., is a Republican and head of the Community Hospital Association of Upper Bucks, the citizens group founded to challenge LifeQuest and its controversial president, Roger B. Hiser. Moyer is a sales engineer for the W.M. Moyer Co., a Quakertown-based contractor. Republican incumbent Catherine E. Baney is once again seeking a six-year auditor's post. She is uncontested.

Baney, 48, of 1540 Gateway Dr., is a bookkeeper at Damper Design, Bethlehem.

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NOCKAMIXON

Much of the heat in the Nockamixon Township supervisors race was diminished when only one incumbent, Chairman Stephen F. Sears, decided to run for re-election.

The heat was generated last winter, when, despite the massive objections of a crowd of 500 township residents who gathered at Palisades High School, the supervisors voted to disband the township's small police force because they felt it was too costly.

At the time, the supporters of the police force charged the supervisors with ousting the police force because of a vendetta against Police John Lapsley and his wife, Officer Kathleen Lapsley.